Zonaris Audio

Built, not sampled.

A small workshop for studio plugins, one at a time. The work is in the detail: the schematic read component by component, the behaviour rebuilt instead of sampled, and the panel drawn as a lit 3D scene exported pixel for pixel. No dongle, no subscription, no calling home.

Volvo tube compressor
01 — Tube compressor

Volvo

Inspired by the RCA BA-6A, down to its Bal-Limit selector: on Dual the second recovery network loads up as the passage goes on and takes seconds to let go. Needle ballistics driven by the real gain reduction, and a Dry/Wet on board for parallel work without a second bus.

AUVST3StandalonemacOS64 samples
02 — In the works

The next instrument is on the bench. One at a time, finished before the next one starts.

How these are made

Four decisions that do not change between products.

01

Modelled, not captured

Each unit is taken apart on paper first — schematic, component values, the response curves it was built to hit. The model is then measured against those numbers until it meets them, so it reacts to whatever you feed it instead of replaying one frozen setting.

02

Rendered at your resolution

The panel is a lit 3D scene exported pixel for pixel. At 100% nothing is stretched and nothing is guessed.

03

Offline for good

Activate once from the app or your account. After that the plugin never needs a network, and never asks for one.

04

Your licence, your machines

Two machines per licence, and you release one yourself the day a computer dies. No dongle to lose.